On Thu, 24 May 2001, Julius C. Duque wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mark Grant wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have recently installed open ssh on a couple of solaris 2.6 boxes and I am
> > having a few problems.
> >
> > When you connect from a pc you get an instant response.
> > When you connect from another solaris box there is a long pause before you get
> > prompted for a login.
> > Does anybody know whats causing this ?
>
> I think it has something to do with the /dev/random not present on
> Solaris. I seem to have read about this somewhere, probably in another
> mailing list.
Ah.... I made a mistake. In some unices, /dev/random is not available.
But in your case, it seems that /dev/random (or an entropy source) is
already present. My guess is, when a connection is requested, random
bytes from the entropy pool are requested to generate a session key. When
the pool is exhausted, it will need to recharge, thus, the long pause.
At least, that's how it works with Linux. I hope the analogy is still
valid with Solaris. :-\
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